Great Family Songbook: A Treasury of Favorite Show Tunes, Sing Alongs, Popular Songs, Jazz & Blues, Children's Melodies, International Ballads, Folk ... Jingles, and More for Piano and Guitar

Very nice large assortment of classic songs, wide range of genres. I play guitar and this has chords and lyrics as well as the notation (no TAB) so you can strum along and sing or if you know how to read music, you can play the notes (as piano would), and notes aren’t too complex either.Assortment of songs ranging from classic American folk (as covered by many early 60s folk singers like Peter/Paul/Mary and Bob Dylan), to western folk songs (Home on the Range, I’ve Been Working on the Railroad), Holiday Songs (12 Days of Christmas), Film & Show tunes, Spiritual/Gospel, Jazz, International, etc.Overall a beautiful songbook for guitar and piano, classic older songs great for families or anyone wanting to play some relaxing calm classic music. Great book if you’re starting out learning to read music or even just want chords and lyrics. And the illustrations are so nice as well as a brief history of the song on each page, very well put together and make this a joy to open up everytime!

Just received this wonderful collection of favorite tunes! The spiral binding makes it easy to use at the piano or to hold across my lap! Illustrations and print are easy on the old eyes. I am especially thrilled with the introduction and brief history includedfor each song! Fascinating and enjoyable information!Great songbook!! Thank you!!

I am having so much with this book! I’m an intermediate adult player with a mostly classical background (from years of lessons when I was a student). I wanted music that I could PLAY that would still sound good and be singable! This book delivers! The arrangements are super accessible for me, sound more complicated than they are, and are easy to sing along with (lyrics included and in singable keys)! I’ve been memorizing some them so that I can build a repertoire of songs to play whenever I come across a piano!Also, the layout is really sweet. The illustrations are cute, the music is well printed and very easy to read, the book lays open flat. Quality book. Very nice to use.My only complaint is that there are a lot of songs here I may never play because they’re pretty old and unfamiliar to me. Some are good and I’m happy to learn them; others just feel outdated. If only this book were a LITTLE more current! Also a few of the arrangements are sort of “meh,” but this book still spends a lot of time on my piano!

This treasury is exactly what I was looking for when I began searching for an accompaniment sing a long book to use with my kids. It has almost every song I wanted, and plenty more I wouldn't have even thought of.The book itself is high quality - heavy card stock pages, spiral bound, beautiful pictures and clear typeset. The arrangements are easy to read and the lyrics are a decent size for most eyes. Each song has a paragraph of history/explanation at the top and these are filled with gems in and of themselves.The quality of the musical arrangements is also top notch - they are simple enough for most pianists to play without much rehearsal (early intermediate in difficulty) but written in such a way that the greater mood of the song is really captured. The harmonies are well selected to deliver maximum musical impact with minimal difficulty. Almost all of these songs are set in very easy keys as well, which is a bonus for sight reading without much preparation.My only criticisms, and they are small, are that there are no suggested fingerings on any of these pieces and that some verses are missing from a few of the songs. With the fingerings, it would do any pianist well to go through the songs before playing and write in a few - a lack of fingerings can unnecessarily stumble sight readers. With the missing verses, all the most popular refrains are represented and most pieces are complete as written (to the best of my knowledge) so this quibble is minor. If I really want the fifth verse of random-patriotic-anthem, I can pull it up on Google easily enough and just play another repeat of the score.For families who want to spend some time singing old favorites together, to charity playing in nursing homes or even as a supplement to a homeschool unit on a historical event, "The Great Family Songbook" is a phenomenal addition to any sheet music library. Our family will be enjoying this for many years to come!

Wide selection of songs from several different genres. Well arranged and edited. Easy enough to be accessible for amateur pianists and singers. Well done. I will enjoy this collection of delightful music.

The book is nice and contains all kinds of songs so everybody will find something interesting, not for advanced pianists but not for the first year student either. 3 starts because I’ve odered it several times (replacement): the first one arrived with badly bent corner, two others either looked liked worn out all around over the cover or had rips on the corner.. if I’ll decide to laminate the cover, I’ll have to cut this corner off to avoid of bubbles...

This is hands-down the BEST family song book you ever need. This song book has all the most popular songs in American culture, patriotic songs (America the Beautiful, This land is our land, Star spangled banner..) children''s songs (BINGO, twinkle twinkle little star, Itsy bitsy spider..) American folks songs (Red river, Oh Susanna, Home on the Range...) the most popular christmas songs, popular songs from movies, some international folks song (Auld ang Syne... It is cutely illustrated, the musical arrangements are relatively simple. It is a practical spiral bound. I would give 10 stars!!!

The arrangements in this book are really great. I am an intermediate player, and I am able to sight read these songs with just a few errors. With a few run-throughs, I should be quite competent. But even though the arrangements are simple, just the right chords have been selected, that still produce a nice overall song. I don't know how to explain it better, but I'm sure most players have purchased some sheet music and then when the time came to play it, it just never sounded great, even if you were playing it exactly as written. Maybe the arranger decided to get fancy on a few chords (to the point where you do a double check and make sure you didn't miss a note, and then wonder whether or not it might be a typo), or maybe they simplified it too much. This book is the complete opposite- it has just the notes you need to capture the essence of each song, and nothing you don't. I have more use for some sections of the book than others (I have a 2 year old, so I'm already getting pretty good at the children's songs, and I anticipate the patriotic and holiday songs will also be in heavy rotation), but they have made some nice, general selections that will appeal to a wide audience. If you have a crowd who wants to gather around the piano and sing, you will get pretty far with this one book. I would recommend this for any piano library.

Great book, lovely selection of songs we all know and songs we'll enjoy learning. Fun to play and fun for the family, too.

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I only play classical music and i’ve been looking for a good book to play with my kids but I couldn’t find any good one. This book is a perfect one! Easy to play and songs that everyone knows. I’m going to try to find another book like this.

So pleased am I with this comprehensive book of songs to sing along to, in my case to YouTube provided music, that I have bought it also for a younger generation of the family with pianists, a guitarist, and singers in their midst.

My folks really like this book. It has tunes such as Jacob's ladder. I wish it also included Going Home but I'm glad I got this.